Re:Facebook did not hire Black employees because they were n...
by jfengel on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @12:39PM
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Have they given guidance on what that means?
In the abstract, it sounds really good: "We're hiring you because you're different and we want that over another person who brings more of the same." In practice, it sounds like an opportunity to have managers add "s/Culture Fit/Culture Add/" to an outgoing message filter.
You'll know it's real when managers start pushing back: "I don't want that person because they sound like a real jackass". That's what "culture fit" was supposed to mean. That's where the rubber really meets the road: teaching people to distinguish between the discomfort they feel because somebody is a jerk versus the discomfort they feel because they're attuned to people like them and everybody else introduces a tiny, almost subconscious air of uncertainty.
It's really hard to do, because a lot of people don't want to think of themselves as racist/sexist/homophobic, but the cumulative effect of those tiny nudges causes a lot of harm.
In the abstract, it sounds really good: "We're hiring you because you're different and we want that over another person who brings more of the same." In practice, it sounds like an opportunity to have managers add "s/Culture Fit/Culture Add/" to an outgoing message filter.
You'll know it's real when managers start pushing back: "I don't want that person because they sound like a real jackass". That's what "culture fit" was supposed to mean. That's where the rubber really meets the road: teaching people to distinguish between the discomfort they feel because somebody is a jerk versus the discomfort they feel because they're attuned to people like them and everybody else introduces a tiny, almost subconscious air of uncertainty.
It's really hard to do, because a lot of people don't want to think of themselves as racist/sexist/homophobic, but the cumulative effect of those tiny nudges causes a lot of harm.